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Re:Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days? by masklinn on Saturday October 16, 2021 @07:30AM (#28887123)
> Let's hope AMD mobile processors will work better, and that we'll be able to find decent laptops using them.

It doesn't have anything to do with the processor does it? Surely neither intel nor amd have removed S3 support?

AFAIK it's integrators (motivated by Microsoft's push of "modern standby"?) which make it unavailable in their bioses: S3 needs bios integration, modern standby is just S0. Or do you mean "hopefully AMD will have a better S0 idle"?

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Re:Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days? by ajvs on Saturday October 16, 2021 @09:26AM (#28887731)
Intel 11th gen CPUs are 100% Modern Standby and DO NOT have S3 sleep. I don't know about AMDs support.
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Re:Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days? by masklinn on Saturday October 16, 2021 @11:58AM (#28888757)
Wow, TIL I'm never getting an intel CPU again. Not that I was planning to, mind.
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Re:Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days? by vbernat on Saturday October 16, 2021 @09:50AM (#28887875)
Lenovo still puts it back on some of the laptops, like the X1 Carbon 9th Gen. So, I suppose this is not strictly dependent on the CPU.
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Re:Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days? by masklinn on Saturday October 16, 2021 @12:00PM (#28888772)
After looking for confirmation of this, S3 support seems to be either missing or broken in various ways, there'a a reddit thread where a System76 engineer talks about the mess that was: https://old.reddit.com/r/System76/comments/k7xrtz/ill_have_w...
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